Named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order “the same as Sandwich”.

Ideas and execution

We are sandwiched between the earth and the sky.

We are sandwiched between the past and the future.

Nostalgia and hope.

May be when two things collide and trap something, something happens, it becomes.

Bringing the past forward and combining it with the future. Memories and emotions.

Dorethia Tanning.-

Notes for an Apocalypse1978

Oil on canvas50 x 62 in.

In her own words…[Growing up in Galesburg, Illinois] There was a long dining room table that on Sunday, especially when the pastor came to dinner, got covered with, first, a pad and then the great gleaming white tablecloth. They shook it out a laid it down, smoothing out the folds that made a gentle grid from end to end. The grid surely proved that order prevailed in this house. In Notes for an Apocalypse the grid may still be trying to prove something, to reassure, to bring order our of turmoil and to anchor the turbulent images. Once, years ago, a writer, referring to another work of mine (Some Roses and Their Phantoms, 1952), used the word eucharist. Wrong again, I thought at the time. But the Sunday tablecloth…

-from Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond. Exhibition brochure. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000

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